Orson Welles’ name was little known by Austin film students in the 1960s until Peter Bogdanovich wrote about the director in Cahiers du Cinema. Cinema 40 organized a retrospective, and were surprised by this film, which is infamous for being taken away from Welles by RKO and re-edited, but maintains many of Welles’ brilliant ideas.

Thanks to our promotional partners, hyperreal film club.

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Directed by Orson Welles
USA, 1942, 88 min, DCP
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Tickets: https://www.austinfilm.org/screening/cinema-40-presents-the-magnificent-ambersons/